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Such cuts may help the short-term bottom line but can haunt companies down the road. "Stopping those payments can be a violation of an implicit contract, and that can affect people's sense of loyalty," says Stacey Kole, an expert on human-resources management at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. "It's a natural trigger for people to look outside for alternative jobs." And employees remember such slights. "If you cheat me today," Kole says, "I'll remember that when I have options to go elsewhere...
This is aimed mostly for people doing long-term planning, and if you're in your 40s or 50s, you're not going to consider a career as a physician. However, there are certain occupations in here that require much less education and training, and you could make a move into those. For example, police dispatchers need only moderate-term on-the-job training...
...future, over 100 coal plants are in various stages of development around the country. If those plants are built without the means to capture and sequester underground the carbon they emit - and it's far from clear that such technology will be commercially viable in the near-term - our ambitious goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and avert climate change will be meaningless...
...landmark decision, the EPA - with the support of the Bush Administration - has doggedly refuse to regulate CO2, much to the dismay of environmentalists. The board's decision will force the EPA to consider CO2 when issuing permits for new power plants, potentially making it - at least in the short-term - all but impossible to certify new coal power plants. That's because the EPA will need to reconfigure its rules on dealing with CO2, which is found in greater concentrations in coal than any other fossil fuel, that force plants in the permitting process to be reevaluated, delaying them...
...Right now, however, there is no definition of BACT for CO2, and environmentalists estimate it will take six months to a year to figure that out. In the meantime, all other coal plants in the permitting process, or stuck in the courts, will be frozen. Over the longer term, it's possible that new coal plants may be impossible to certify at all until a technology exists to greatly reduce or sequester carbon emissions from coal plants - and currently none has been proven. "The decision says the EPA can't ignore CO2," says Nilles...